Overheard
Yes?
Half legs
Half arms
Cut
Cut also?
Little
Front short?
Hmmmm
Coming after a long time, no?
First time after marriage, no?
Hmmmmm
So dark you’ve become.
Honeymoon in Goa?
Do full arms, no? Nice it’ll be.
Just married and all.
No! No! It’s okay….
See, I’ll…bhagwaan, what’s this!?
It’s nothing, nothing, he doesn’t like me
wearing sleeveless, then why to do
full arms?
Silence
Eyebrow shape not okay
One is up, one down. I’ll change it okay,
Don’t worry. Don’t worry.
Okay. Fine. Do that.
Yes. Change it.
Change it.
Change it.
Overheard. Sunday. Feb 2007.
Half legs
Half arms
Cut
Cut also?
Little
Front short?
Hmmmm
Coming after a long time, no?
First time after marriage, no?
Hmmmmm
So dark you’ve become.
Honeymoon in Goa?
Do full arms, no? Nice it’ll be.
Just married and all.
No! No! It’s okay….
See, I’ll…bhagwaan, what’s this!?
It’s nothing, nothing, he doesn’t like me
wearing sleeveless, then why to do
full arms?
Silence
Eyebrow shape not okay
One is up, one down. I’ll change it okay,
Don’t worry. Don’t worry.
Okay. Fine. Do that.
Yes. Change it.
Change it.
Change it.
Overheard. Sunday. Feb 2007.
posted by kaaju katli | 7:14 PM
18 Comments:
welcome back.
on a lighter note, can't help but think of a person in a half-sleeved hair shirt - not the self-punishing kind. some honeymoon.
word verification: ndwij - new dawn with indi. joy!
Overheard conversations as an art form :P. This one's a shivery one though!
'He doesn't like me wearing sleeveless'. Yikes.
nice..
glad to see u r back :)
Overheard you posted at last! :P
Somehow I heard a lot more than what met my eyes. I like what's not in your face. Very potent poem. :)
Oh my. Violent images. Indi, you scare me! Fantastically written.
Very poetic as usual. Missed your writing!
everything - every metaphor, every single word, every space between two words - is so beautifully dark.
kudos.
You know Indi - this piece is fluid. It takes the shape of my mood. It reveals something new everytime I read it. Awesome.
Read all your posts. You are Brilliant ! Like the way you play with words.
:) do u always write this well?
indi, this was chilling yet lovely...
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Glad i found your blog. Very interesting. "Overheard" is so open ended..giving space to so many perception...kool.
hmm....you turn the ordinary into extraordinary.....you always did...glad you have found yourself....
I still feel the dark and foreboding clouds of self-doubt in your writing... soaring high effortlessly in a moment...wallowing in the abyss the next....a rollercoaster...contrasting thoughts, seamlessly blended....
I always saw, and still see a great writer...in you...
That was so deep. Excellent! :)
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Frightening -- although I cannot quite follow every twist & turn of the exchange. Regardless, the basic situation is chillingly and so tersely sketched -- a real study in compressed communication; a novel in a nutshell.
Hoping to see more poetry from you, Indi.
cheers,
d.i.
interesting poetry...
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